Dolma.

"I don't come down right away. First I watch." It's the line Dolma repeats whenever someone asks her to act now. Half a child's stubbornness, half a law of her own. Before deciding anything she climbs to a high point, holds still, and looks for a good while: who's moving, what has changed, which way is best to go. Only once she's seen the whole of it does she come down and act. Never the other way around. The village takes her for slow and she doesn't argue; she knows it isn't slowness, it's that watching is her place. This t-shirt wears that face of hers, calm and watchful, the face of someone who misses no detail.

Dolma is a red panda, and that calm comes to her naturally. The red panda is a calm, cautious animal: it rarely gets into trouble, and it would rather observe for a long while and step aside than face anything head-on. It takes everything in stride, without spending energy to spare. None of that needs spelling out on the garment; the face is enough, still and head-on. The whole story of this girl who looks before deciding is told in her biography, and this t-shirt, like the rest of my Animal Kinhood series, I created myself, Yago Partal.